Tag: poetry

i walk home and i am rapping along the way i have plenty to say trying to be constructive amidst the destructive political dumpster fire why do we have to follow a liar? why do we have to swallow lies? there is…

i had a cousin in the navy a brother-in-law in the navy i had a grandfather at dunkirk you have to respect the work you have to respect the calling even if you find the war appalling the idea of blood hungry…

broken machine you earn much spleen error message on your screen the fucking wait time is obscene makes me cranky; i’m acting mean operating systems need to be lean

to make the suggestion your humanity is in question to suggest you are observing of the violence we’re observing sometimes beggars belief there is no commander in chief that could fire gas into a crowd where the child or the mother is…

my washing machine set to spin cycle my computer screen set to news cycle one gets things clean one makes you vent spleen barely an inbetween the whole world become obscene an uncivil war and what for? to make great again in…

twenty twenty hindsight ease becomes a kind of a disease we are saviours of primitive forebears stumble into the china shop unawares with our different metrics evil is so banal evil is failure to act into the corner backed or walking the…

i built a life on a filter it made it off-kilter fuck yous in the poetry polite to the face anger disappears without a trace what are you gonna do? sit there and stew? or are you going to push through? sometimes…

spoken lines broken lines token lines and how we fail to see the difference the machinery behind masks subvocal mutterings the spin a double sided buttered toast flings we spin we spin we flip the wing these words i learned the birds…

those jokers who are not funny who are never on the money who never land a punchline but like to keep pushing forward until people sicken until they feel broken who is laughing? who applauds? isn’t the whole thing flawed because sometimes…

it was a documentary day exploring skate kid fallout lives of violence against women and transformative acts on ramps arrest quotas and targetted communities and cops that wouldn’t toe the line punished for upholding the law and then i edged into lost…